Fiesta at Five

September 12 - Black Orpheus

Marcel Camus, France/Brazil 1959, 103 minutes

The legendary retelling of the Orpheus/Eurydice myth during the Rio de Janiero's colourful and raucous Carnival, with music by Antonio Carlos Jobim that launched the worldwide bossa nova craze. Portugese with English subtitles.

September 13 - The Exterminating Angel

Luis Buñuel, Mexico, 1962, 95 mins.

One of master surrealist Luis Buñuel's last films to be made in Mexico - after directing twenty years of potboilers and romances - was the sublime The Exterminating Angel. A tale of dinner guests who can't leave the party and revert back to barbaric behaviour, it's a film of sly grace and savage wit. Spanish with English subtitles.

September 14 - Bye Bye Brazil

Carlos Diegues, Brazil, 1979, 110 minutes

A travelling troupe experiences the real Brazil on tour far from the cities while juggling domestic trials and tribulations in this vibrant and entertaining quasi-musical comedy-drama. Portugese with English subtitles. 

September 15 - My Macondo

Dan Weldon, Canada/UK, 1990, 62 minutes

A superb documentary portrait of the Nobel Prize winning author of One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez, and his fictional Colombian hometown of Macondo.

September 16 - Kiss of the Spider Woman

Hector Babenco, Brazil/USA, 1985, 119 minutes

Manuel Puig's landmark novel comes alive in the hands of Brazilian director Hector Babenco's Hollywood/Brazillian hybrid tale of a crossdressing popcult-addicted prisoner housed with a revolutionary.

September 17 - Cronos

Guillermo del Toro, Mexico, 1993, 92 minutes. Before his international breakthrough Pan's Labyrinth, Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro directed this off-beat and utterly original sci-fi flick about an elderly antiques dealer who accidentally activates a device that grants eternal life. Spanish with English subtitles.

September 18 - Y Tu Mamá También

Alfonso Cuarón, Mexico, 2001, 105 minutes

A road trip for two teenage guys with raging horomones and an older, wiser and more experienced woman turns out to be a funny, sexy and surprisingly illuminating journey into the contemporary state of Latin America's soul. Spanish with English subtitles. 

September 19 - The Motorcycle Diaries

Walter Salles, Argentina/Chile/Cuba/USA/Peru/UK/Germany/France, 2003, 128 minutes. Gael Garcia Bernal plays the young Che Guevara on an eye-opening trip through the stunning poverty and geographical wonders of South America before he became a revolutionary. Tender, revealing and for some, a revelation. Spanish with English subtitles.